A chair found in the streets of Oslo, sandblasted and upholstered with my own painting and a fabric made out of recycled bottlecorks.
This project was a collaboration with furniture company Thorsønn focusing on leftover materials resulting in the exhibition "scraps" 

A painting to read in

Fra utstillingen "det gikk ikke over" / HosArne 28.02.23 - 05.03.23

"-utstillingen har blitt til i denne pandemi tiden som rene refleksjoner. Utstillingen er skisser fra 2021 malt opp som malerier i 2022. Jeg ville at skissene skulle få bli originaler i sin rette form, og det er derfor gjengitt så oppriktig som mulig uten å være låst til å kopiere.
Utstillingen bestod av 135 arbeider.

Dette er en videreføring av utstillingen "dette går aldri over" fra januar 2022 sammen med AceOslo.

Hattemakeren

Ville dit solen skinte / wanted to go where the sun shone

Free Boobs

From the exhibition "Körper und Geist" / A collaborative piece between Ole Fredrik Hvidsten and Fredrik Fjell Kløvstad on paper

Geht von After-Party zu After-Party

Kjøttfall

Jeg pynter litt extra

Angry artist feeling framed by life and cheated by the world

Kunsthefte med et ukritisk utvalg av tegninger fra skissebøker i koronaåret 2020

"Hva er vitsen"

Hey, I´m walking here

Alltid gå med hansker

Hartvig

Tegning på foto av Stian Frøysang
Fra utstillingen gruppeutstillingen ™️shareponys Vol.1 
"Denne samarbeidsutstillingen tar utgangspunkt i Stian Frøysang sine fotografier fra (alt i fra) Perth til Oslo over de siste tjue årene, hvor kunstnere som er med har fått fritt spillerom til å utrykke seg på printet foto.»

Calling for death

Das ist kein Marienkäfer

I come bearing the gift not being myself

Apefest (farger)

Hjelp

Rebirth

Acrylic on canvas

”Sabotage” - is a collaborative project between ceramicist Jim Darbu and illustrator Ole Fredrik 
Hvidsten. Together they run @StudioHalv, a work collective and artist-run exhibition 
space, where they have worked in recent months to challenge each other’s limits in drawing on canvas.
An eternal battle between two minds, different aesthetic preferences and stubborn ego is put on hold in order to be able to create something other than what you want to manage on your own. The project itself is successful, but whether it is visually 
appealing, that for the public to decide.

05.06.23 ------------ 01.09.23

Molded by America

Fra utstillingen "Myken1"

"-utstillingen har blitt til i denne pandemi tiden som rene refleksjoner. Jeg har alltid tegnet mye i skissebøker, og nå fikk jeg endelig brukt for det på en måte jeg synes fungerte. Utstillingen er da en skisser fra 2020 som jeg har malt opp som malerier i 2021. Jeg ville at skissene skulle få bli originaler i sin rette form, og det er derfor gjengitt så oppriktig som mulig uten å være låst til å kopiere.

Maleriet er ikke festet til blindramme, men vil bli dette ved salg.

fittemakt

Less valuable creatures also wonder about the universe

Acrylic on canvas 

”Sabotage” - is a collaborative project between ceramicist Jim Darbu and illustrator Ole Fredrik 
Hvidsten. Together they run @StudioHalv, a work collective and artist-run exhibition 
space, where they have worked in recent months to challenge each other’s limits in drawing on canvas.
An eternal battle between two minds, different aesthetic preferences and stubborn ego is put on hold in order to be able to create something other than what you want to manage on your own. The project itself is successful, but whether it is visually 
appealing, that for the public to decide.

05.06.23 ------------ 01.09.23

Mens han seilet, var hun igjen  i stormen

Utvinning

Øynene sa mer enn kjeften

When you find yourself in the end of the tunnel, and you don´t like what you see.

Lifegoal gone wrong

Gjenopplivet

Monkey Business (Orginal)

Jeanne d'Arc, you crazy braud

ChildsPlay

Varme føtter

Die Sonne im Kopf

Fra utstillingen "det gikk ikke over" / HosArne 28.02.23 - 05.03.23

"-utstillingen har blitt til i denne pandemi tiden som rene refleksjoner. Utstillingen er skisser fra 2021 malt opp som malerier i 2022. Jeg ville at skissene skulle få bli originaler i sin rette form, og det er derfor gjengitt så oppriktig som mulig uten å være låst til å kopiere.
Utstillingen bestod av 135 arbeider.

Dette er en videreføring av utstillingen "dette går aldri over" fra januar 2022 sammen med AceOslo. 

Supercatzen

I shook hands with everybody, Boris

Consexualized era

Jeg leter alltid etter det nest beste

My anatomy reached alien limits splitting my personality pleasing you need

Ongoing project fighting linjes and shapes

Cold creaper

Fra utstillingen "dette går aldri over"

"-utstillingen har blitt til i denne pandemi tiden som rene refleksjoner. Jeg har alltid tegnet mye i skissebøker, og nå fikk jeg endelig brukt for det på en måte jeg synes fungerte. Utstillingen er da en skisser fra 2020 som jeg har malt opp som malerier i 2021. Jeg ville at skissene skulle få bli originaler i sin rette form, og det er derfor gjengitt så oppriktig som mulig uten å være låst til å kopiere.

Fotokredit; Adrian Fjell

Waited for someone, for something, for anything, for too long 

My mutated cat made me do it

drifting in a different general direction

Fra utstillingen "dette går aldri over"

"-utstillingen har blitt til i denne pandemi tiden som rene refleksjoner. Jeg har alltid tegnet mye i skissebøker, og nå fikk jeg endelig brukt for det på en måte jeg synes fungerte. Utstillingen er da en skisser fra 2020 som jeg har malt opp som malerier i 2021. Jeg ville at skissene skulle få bli originaler i sin rette form, og det er derfor gjengitt så oppriktig som mulig uten å være låst til å kopiere.

Fotokredit; Adrian Fjell


it was you that put your foot into my habitat

Offenes Meer und weite Ausblicke

hsjjji

Ut å drepe ulver

Gran Canaria, hat es sich gelohnt?

Looking

Lukten av lovnader gjorde meg svimmel

Helmuth

Ikke alle følgere er gode følgere

Antatt antastet

Unity

Obstacle to die for

Du fikk kort fra en rotten stokk

shadow instrument

This book is a catalogue from my exhibition at Hos_Arne in 2022 consisting of 360 pages of artwork, tekst and pictures.

The exhibition is based on sketches from sketchbooks Ole Fredrik Hvidsten made during the period of coronavirus in 2021. They are raw sketches based on observations and thoughts made during this strange time in society. A period where freedom was curtailed, where many were socially isolated and many felt a form of hopelessness and at times fear. There were periods when you thought that now this is over, now things will get better, austerity measures were eased, only to experience that rules were tightened again. Hence the title ”It didn’t end”

The sketches are directly transferred from these sketchbooks to larger canvas. Ole Fredrik Hvidsten has changed the raw material as little as possible, even if it is tempting in such a process. There is something uncontrolled and intuitive about it and sketching freely without having as an ulterior motive that there should be some form of result. In total, over a hundred sketches from 2021 have been transferred to a larger canvas as a reflection on what we went through as a collective society and as individuals in 2021 and they
will be shown at Arne’s.

The exhibition is a continuation of the exhibition ”It never ends” from January 2022, which was a direct expression of the situation with opening and closing and the coronavirus we were in at the time.

Sketching for Ole Fredrik, who is primarily an illustrator, involves a large degree of freedom. He also associates art with freedom. It’s just as if the sketch is completely real, it’s the thought and the power directly transferred on paper without an intermediary.
The title of this exhibition ”it didn’t end” is more complex than it seems, it’s not just about all the waiting we went through before the pandemic got out of hand, but perhaps we also carry with us a form of post-traumatic corona syndrome. If not everyone saw at least some of us. And in that respect it certainly did not pass.

For Ole Fredrik, the titles are an important part of the work, they add an extra dimension.
In the small gallery you get the feeling of walking straight into Ole Fredrik’s workroom while he is in process.
Here we find sketches, finished small illustrations and transferred sketches for larger paintings close together. In the large gallery there is more air between the works, one of the works floats and in its power helps to define the room. On two of the podiums, the original sketch is placed in front of the painting. In the living room, three works are placed in a homely environment.

Anne Weyer-Larsen

"It didn´t pass"

Lavt blodsukker

O Donald, where aren ́t thou?

Good sharks makes all the difference

ScooterAsshole

Bollekinn u/ sigggggar

HeartHurt

Colorpensil, ink and acrylic on paper

”Sabotage” - is a collaborative project between ceramicist Jim Darbu and illustrator Ole Fredrik 
Hvidsten. Together they run @StudioHalv, a work collective and artist-run exhibition 
space, where they have worked in recent months to challenge each other’s limits in drawing on canvas.
An eternal battle between two minds, different aesthetic preferences and stubborn ego is put on hold in order to be able to create something other than what you want to manage on your own. The project itself is successful, but whether it is visually 
appealing, that for the public to decide.

05.06.23 ------------ 01.09.23

Bondens makt

Sirenen tok min laban

Det er flaut å være fri

Zwillingsseelen auf einer ewigen Reise

One time at the beach

Komplisert kompensering

Gevirets mars

Pork

Den sinte okse

Covid Kids

Hva han snakker om når han snakker om løping

Hemningsløs biting

Du trenger ikke Adidas i døden

Tankene om metaverset

Nygjerrig

Evig mølle

Die tropische botschaft für zerbrochene traume

Dynamic life er en collage av tegninger fra å sitte på kafe. Mange tegninger satt sammen digitalt og malt over med kaffeflekker. Bildet kan justeres i størrelse og tilpasses deretter pris.

Dynamic life

Sarsgate Sadness

Move right

Monkey business

Doppler Modus

Teodors venn

Den moderne nattverd kranset rundt pizza. Trykket kan justeres i størrelse og hva det trykkes på.

Pizzaverden

Aufgestaut

Oljesøl

Monica

Godt håndarbeid

Eddie lever

Why bother Keith, why bother

We met in the mirror

I heard a lot of deathscreams

Meg og kylling

Blodsprengt

Keep to your format, never change for death

Demise of a too proud asshole

Inspirasjon Jim Darbu

Gjerne Hjerne Smelt

Brickmover

 Jeanne d`Arc you crazy braud

World destroiers

Ceramic (craft crank) Sculpture of a man on his high horse.

Kjepphesten og mannen / the fad and the man

Kroppen

Rød tråd

Chicken_Shrimp 

Digital kjærlighet

Meine eigene kleine Insel

Regnbue pikk og bue

Resinskulptur (600g) der figuren tar hevn på menneskeheten som avskoger planeten

Woodsie

Vi er alle rævtroll

Colorpensil and acrylic on paper

”Sabotage” - is a collaborative project between ceramicist Jim Darbu and illustrator Ole Fredrik 
Hvidsten. Together they run @StudioHalv, a work collective and artist-run exhibition 
space, where they have worked in recent months to challenge each other’s limits in drawing on canvas.
An eternal battle between two minds, different aesthetic preferences and stubborn ego is put on hold in order to be able to create something other than what you want to manage on your own. The project itself is successful, but whether it is visually 
appealing, that for the public to decide.

05.06.23 ------------ 01.09.23

Papirpose og galskap

Kjærledyrets tristesssse

Bjørnen sover ikke

Moderna

The sculpture is an extension of the exhibition "det gikk ikke over/ it did not pass" at the gallery HosArne and the Edition print series with Atelie. The sculpture is made of stoneware clay and pipe clay.

Jeanne D`arc, you crazy braud 

Sur himmel, jordsmak

Du møtte noe helt annet i døra

Franz

From the exhibition "Körper und Geist" / a collaborative piece between Ole Fredrik Hvidsten and Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad

"The sheets of paper in this exhibition were given to the artist Fredrik Fjeld Kløvstad by a friend who was working at the old Munch Museum at Tøyen. He then got the idea to explore the process of working together on the same sheet of paper with his friend Ole Fredrik Hvidsten. Learn more about this in MUNCHX BOX, which is the gallery's podcast. Available on YouTube @Munchxgalleri (episode 1: "About drawing on the same sheet")."

Bismürgen

Menn som mater fugler

Colorpensil on paper

”Sabotage” - is a collaborative project between ceramicist Jim Darbu and illustrator Ole Fredrik 
Hvidsten. Together they run @StudioHalv, a work collective and artist-run exhibition 
space, where they have worked in recent months to challenge each other’s limits in drawing on canvas.
An eternal battle between two minds, different aesthetic preferences and stubborn ego is put on hold in order to be able to create something other than what you want to manage on your own. The project itself is successful, but whether it is visually 
appealing, that for the public to decide.

05.06.23 ------------ 01.09.23

ole fredrik hvidsten

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